Book of Articles

The Book of Articles is a list of allegations against Mary, Queen of Scots and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. The document was produced for the Westminster Conference in December 1568. The manuscript, held by the British Library, was written by Alexander Hay of Easter Kennett, and is sometimes known as Hay's Articles. The material resembles George Buchanan's published Detection and his Indictment of Mary. The text was published by John Hosack in 1869.

A comparable document, held by Cambridge University Library, is known as Buchanan's "Indictment". The material may have been first composed in Latin and sent by Regent Moray to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. The historian John Guy calls this body of evidence against Mary "Buchanan's dossier".

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.